Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/04/24
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hi Richard: The lighting was similar to today's, so the red filter helped make that contrast. All those buds that have popped out in the last few days would have made for a very different photo. Jim Richard Taylor wrote: > Jim - Having lived here for more than 40 years now, I think I know > Boston's Metro West pretty well but you're always pointing out things I > haven't seen. Thanks for the tour. Nice pix, too. I particularly > like the one of the stone bridge for its simplicity and the stark > contrast of form between the stone work and the bare trees. > > Regards, > > Dick > > > > On Apr 23, 2008, at 6:57 AM, Jim Hemenway wrote: > >> Shot a week ago with my Rollei: >> >> <http://www.hemenway.com/MetroWest-6008i-RedFilter-TriX-04162000/> >> >> The Case estate is in the process of being purchased from Harvard >> University by the town of Weston. The wall shown is reputedly the >> tallest and thickest stone wall in Massachusetts. Ten feet tall and >> six feet thick. >> >> The Old Stone Bridge is ancient by US standards and straddles the >> Sudbury river. That's Sudbury on the right bank and Framingham on >> the left. The bridge's distinction is that it was used by General >> Knox when he moved the cannon captured at Fort Ticonderoga to >> Dorchester Heights, just before the Americans scared those pesky >> British Lobsterbacks out of Boston on March 17, 1776. >> >> I don't think there have been any additions to that graveyard in >> living memory. >> >> Same day with the Pentax K10D: >> <http://www.hemenway.com/MetroWest-K10D-04162008/> >> >> The Old Dozer is "imprisoned" within a small forest but can seen from >> the road now because the trees haven't "leafed out yet". I've >> probably driven by it dozens of times. >> >> Jim >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >